Moriah Cohen is the 26-year-old who was lightly stabbed today (Wednesday) in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood by a 15-year-old terrorist. Cohen, a resident of the neighborhood, was injured next to a native when she accompanied them to the school.
Dvir Cohen, Moriah's husband, told Israel Today after the attack: "We will not leave the neighborhood. We believe in settlement in East Jerusalem. We know there are terrorists around us, but we will continue to settle Jerusalem until they understand that the State of Israel is the landlord."
Cohen, who lives with his wife and children in the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood, near Sheikh Jarrah, said: "There are threats against us and I have heard many times: 'I will kill you.' We live near terrorists. "
He added: "She left in the morning and was an Arab who followed her and stabbed her in the upper back. I was in the reserve and my wife was alone with our five children. Someone who was there called an ambulance, evacuated her to the hospital, she underwent tests and thank God she was not injured. ".
Dvir Cohen, Photo: Gideon Markovich
Moriah Cohen, in an interview with "Israel Today" last month: "We broadcast confidence in front of the children"
About a month ago, in the "Israel Hashavua" supplement, we interviewed Moriah and her husband Dvir about life in the turbulent neighborhood.
"My most difficult moment here was on Jerusalem Day," Moriah said at the time, "when I wanted to return home with the children from the festivities, and suddenly an alarm sounded. And my defender. It's a terrible feeling. "
Dvir and Moriah have five small children, and in an interview they said that dealing with the events of May was not easy for them.
"Eleven people were thrown at our compound and stones were thrown endlessly, windows of cars and houses were smashed.
Set cars on fire.
They threw a large iron chair on the nursery window. "
Border forces in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, today, Photo: AFP
In front of the children, they said at the time, they radiated confidence.
"We presented to them the noises of the Arab attacks as noises emanating from the actions of the police seeking to protect them, but at one point the five-year-old boy, Yinon-David, asked me, 'Dad, if the police are guarding us, then why are they not here?'
"This is a mentally healthy child. When a guest once asked him if he was not afraid to live here, he replied naturally and innocently: 'Why, are you afraid to live in your house?'"
Despite this, Dvir and Moriah said that on weekdays, which are many times more than disaster days, "it is nice to raise children here. We returned to Israel and Jerusalem after 2,000 years. The police also learned lessons, and today they fulfill their role here much better than before. "Gathering in a quarter of an hour. Half a year ago it took her a few days. Now it's safer here."
They have been in the neighborhood for six years, and came here after several months of living in the homes of the Jews in the Muslim Quarter.
Moriah, a Talmud Torah teacher, grew up in Petah Tikva.
Dvir, who studies at Ateret Cohanim, grew up with my husband.
His grandfather, Eli Shesher, was one of the founders of Karnei Shomron.
Before the evacuation of Gush Katif, his parents moved to Morag, to strengthen the residents of the bloc and support them.
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